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By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 2/13 3:45pm

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Mike Daisey Announces a New Show About Lying

Looks like Jonah Lehrer isn’t the only fabulist making some money by talking about his journalistic fall from grace. Monologist Mike Daisey, who came under fire last year when This American Life discovered factual inaccuracies and fabrications in an episode that Mr. Daisey adapted from his monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, is back to talk about lying.

Next month, coincidentally one year after This American Life issued a retraction, Mr. Daisey will perform a new monologue called On Lying and the Nature of Magic at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theatre (where he preformed The Agony.. last winter, as well as some new material since).  Read More

By Daniel Edward Rosen 9/11/12 7:00pm

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Artie Lange’s Big Crack-Up

“If I had abs,” said the comedian Artie Lange as he held his medicine ball-sized paunch in his hands, “I would be dead.”

The former Howard Stern sidekick was sitting inside the new Varick Street studio that is home to The Nick & Artie Show, the sports-and-comedy talk show on Sirius Radio and DirecTV that he co-hosts with fellow comedian Nick DiPaolo. He was cradling his gut, pointing at the scars where nearly three years ago, in his Hoboken home, he took a 13-inch Wolfgang Puck kitchen knife and stabbed himself repeatedly: Six times with hesitation. Three times with conviction. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 2/20/12 1:07pm

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What SNL Taught Us About Lindsay Lohan

NBC announced this weekend that Lindsay Lohan is to host the March 3 episode. It’ll be a big comeback episode–for Jack White, whose band broke up last year! For, you see, Ms. Lohan, a three-time host, never really left–as skits about her public persona made up a big chunk of the mid-2000s on SNL. Read More

By Thomas Golianopoulos 9/20/11 6:51pm

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How Dave Mays and Benzino Got Back in the Game with Hip Hop Weekly

In late 1997, The Source magazine celebrated the release of its 100th issue with an enormous bash at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Hip hop’s era of excess was at its blinged-out height. Everybody was getting money and flaunting it. Even the journalists. Before the party, Dave Mays, the co-founder and co-owner of The Source, distributed diamond-encrusted medallions emblazoned with the company logo to about 10 members of the staff. They were later appraised at $7,000. Read More

By Laura Kusisto 4/06/11 8:04pm

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Stirrings at Two Haunted Assets

Life is stirring again at the ghostly Drake Hotel site.

With financing for development sites still virtually frozen, CIM Group has received a $30 million mortgage from Pacific Northwestern Bank on the former home of the Gilded Age hotel, according to public records.

As The Observer reported in February, the spot at Park Avenue and 57th Street is likely the only existing development Read More

By Emily Witt 4/06/11 3:11pm

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The Return of Julian Robertson

More than ten years after closing Tiger Management LLC, Julian Robertson is back! The famous hedge fund manager, who once averaged annual returns of 30 percent and had more than $20 billion in assets under management, has started the Tiger Accelerator Fund to seed the enterprises of young hedge fund talent. One such talent is Read More

By Hunter Walker 11/08/10 3:37am

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Keith Olbermann Will Return To The Airwaves Tuesday

Keith Olbermann’s suspension from MSNBC will end Tuesday. MSNBC President announced the decision Sunday night.

“After several days of deliberation and discussion, I have determined that suspending Keith through and including Monday night’s program is an appropriate punishment for his violation of our policy. We look forward to having him back on the air Tuesday Read More